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Author Correction: Lasing in topological edge states of a one-dimensional lattice
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Research on Shock-Induced Aerothermodynamics for Future Planetary Explorations
Researches on shock-induced aerothermodynamics are conducted at Chofu Aerospace Center (CAC) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for future planetary explorations currently entertained in JAXA. The hy...
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Open AccessGrowth of InxGa1−xSb alloy semiconductor at the International Space Station (ISS) and comparison with terrestrial experiments
InxGa1−xSb is an important material that has tunable properties in the infrared (IR) region and is suitable for IR-device applications. Since the quality of crystals relies on growth conditions, the growth proces...
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Develo** a potentially immunologically inert tetracycline-regulatable viral vector for gene therapy in the peripheral nerve
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‘Collagen Vitrigel Sheet’ as a Novel Drug Delivery Bio-material
Background/Aims. Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)- induced injury is an acute injury mainly caused by surgical procedures. And HGF (hepatocyte growth factor) is known to protect against I/R-injury effectively. The s...
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Real-time monitoring of cellular and organ conditions lead to better understandings of various physiopathological phenomena, and will provide options in clinical diagnosis and therapy. We developed redox sensi...
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We study analytic smoothing effect of solutions to the Schrödinger equation with Cauchy data decaying exponentially at infinity. The domain of analyticity in the space variables of solutions is described under...
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Effects of temperature, photosynthetic photon flux density, photoperiod and O2 and CO2 concentrations on growth rates of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Amphidinium sp.
Symbiotic dinoflagellates of the species Amphidinium are expected to be pharmaceutically useful microalgae because they produce antitumor macrolides. A microalgae production system with a large number of cells at...
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Effects of temperature, photosynthetic photon flux density, photoperiod and O2 and CO2 concentrations on growth rates of the symbiotic dinoflagellate, Amphidinium sp.
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Molecular genetic analysis of ancient human remains is mostly based on mtDNA owing to its better preservation in human bones in comparison with nuclear DNA. A study was made of mtDNA extracted from human skele...
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